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The Purge Hits Home
On Sunday I worked at the American Freedom Alliance conference, a day-long event featuring over 20 speakers, including Charlie Kirk, David Horowitz, Brent Bozell, Michael Walsh, Rebecca Friedrichs, Bill Whittle, and others. The hall overflowed with attendees representing UCLA Republicans to pensioners. It was an outstanding day where we discussed culture, free speech, science, academia, history and politics. On Monday the President of AFA and my dear friend Karen Siegemund was summarily fired from her life-long career of teaching math (both college and high school). The reason provided by the private high school? Her “public views” – that was it. Karen never spoke about politics in the classroom nor did her AFA role crossover into teaching.
Today David Horowitz was banned from Twitter. (*At this moment it seems they have reinstated David.) This follows last weeks widely publicized sweeping ban of other conservative voices from social media, including Paul Joseph Watson (the relatively benign host at InfoWars and other platforms). More incendiary personalities were banned from Facebook and Instagram like Laura Loomer, who, while too emotional for some, raises salient points about the double standard of online free speech (why is the terrorist group Hamas allowed on Twitter, but a Jewish conservative like her is banned?) as well as Milo who is sometimes provocative for the sake of being a provocateur.
You may not like or care about these people, and many don’t, but the battle cry from the Right often branded as ‘slippery slope’ – you may not like Alex Jones, but what happens when they come for you? – is happening now. Karen doesn’t have a provocative bone in her body. She’s a patriot who dedicated her life to educating people, whether her math students or attendees at the organization.
This is the brave new world the Leftist authoritarians designed. They control speech and public discourse through our schools, pop culture, and corporations while the tech titans own it all. Any and all dissent must be purged from our platforms, and now, if you stand up to totalitarianism, you lose your livelihood.
More details will follow, including a possible Go Fund Me page to help Karen with legal. If you would like to know how you can help, please IM me.
Published in General
The simplest – and most entertaining – thing might be, if someone criticizes the hat, tell them you didn’t get it because of Trump. You got it in honor of Jimmy Carter, or Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama who all said the same thing.
How do you fix this, now? Anyone with a brain recognizes this is open and shut.
You got a lot of white Leftists projecting racial motivation, they just can’t help themselves.
Purges cannot occur without centralized info gathering.
I just utilized my business email account to send an important confidential message to a physician.
About 10 minutes later, I went into a Facebook group. I rely on this group to provide up-to-date medical information for a personal affliction.
Anyway the group’s home page loads more slowly than believable. It has been slow for at least three weeks.
So as it is loading today, there is a sudden flash of a white screen, and there in the center of this Facebook screen is the email address of the doctor I just contacted! It just flashes this email address at me for a moment.
Follow up to this piece is now in brilliant technicolor (or Dolby… whatever your poison).
http://ricochet.com/podcast/whiskey-politics/dr-karen-siegemund-conservative-teachers-need-not-apply/